If he wins the White House, I know where Barack Obama can find a press secretary.

In several interviews with media organizations Thursday night, the former White House press secretary hinted that he was strongly leaning toward the Illinois senator’s White House bid over his own party’s presumptive nominee.

McClellan, a former White House official who has angered several Republicans this week for his scathing critique of the Bush Administration, said he hasn’t made an official decision on which candidate he will back, but offered that he is “intrigued by Sen. Obama’s message.”

“It’s a message that is very similar to the one that Gov. Bush ran on in 2000,” McClellan told CBS News.

One difference, Scotty. Bush didn’t know what he was saying in 2000 and, as he would many times in the years since, he mangled his words. He meant to say he was a divider, not a uniter. And he believed in dispassionate conservatism.

Former Bush pollster and strategist Matt Dowd, who left the White House in 2004, is also rumored to be backing Obama, not McCain.

That these guys are not jumping on the Straight Talk Express might explain the vehemence of GOP partisans, particularly directed at McClellan. But I suspect McCain calls up too much deja vu all over again for the people who once believed and followed a sociopathic liar before painfully discovering the truth.